SPIRITUAL HUNGER BY MARY DORIAN 12-26-21
JOHN 6:35 Jesus said, I am the bread of life! He that comes face to face with me shall never hunger and he who finds his faith resting in me shall never thirst! Mirror
John 4:10 He looked her in the eye and said, “If you could see the generosity of God’s grace gift, you would perceive who I am! So here I am asking you for a drink when you should be asking me and I would give you the water of life for free!
11 Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep! How would you reach this living water?
12 Whoever you are, you are certainly not greater than our father Jacob who left us this well and its legacy as our inheritance? He bought this land and dug the well; he drank from it himself and it sustained his family and their livestock for centuries. How can you compete with that?
13 Jesus answered her, “This well cannot quench the thirst that I am talking about. Anyone drinking from it will thirst again!”
14 Whoever drinks from the source of this water that I shall give will never thirst again; because the water that I give becomes an artesian well bursting from within, 1defining the life of the ages! Mirror
Isa 55: 1-3 Pay attention and come closer to me, and hear, that your total being may flourish. I will enter into an everlasting covenant with you, and I will show you the same faithful love that I showed David.
4 See! I made him a witness to the nations, an example of leadership, as prince and commander of peoples.”
5 Look! You will summon nations you’ve never heard of. Nations who have never heard of you will come running to follow you because Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, has glorified you! TPT
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Isa 55:1 “Hey there! All who are thirsty, come to the water! Are you penniless? Come anyway — buy and eat! Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk. Buy without money — everything’s free!
2 Why do you spend your money on junk food, your hard-earned cash on cotton candy?
Listen to me, listen well: Eat only the best, fill yourself with only the finest.
3 Pay attention, come close now, listen carefully to my life-giving, life-nourishing words.
I’m making a lasting covenant commitment with you, the same that I made with David: sure, solid, enduring love. MSG
Ps 34:10 The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek (inquire of and require) the Lord [by right of their need and on the authority of His Word], none of them shall lack any beneficial thing. AMP
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Ps 34:10 Even the strong and the wealthygrow weak and hungry, but those who passionately pursue the Lord will never lack any good thing. TPT
Ps 42:1-5 long to drink of you, O God, to drink deeply from the streams of pleasure flowing from your presence. My longings overwhelm me for more of you!
2 My soul thirsts, pants, and longs for the living God. I want to come and see the face of God.
3 Day and night my tears keep falling and my heart keeps crying for your help, while my enemies mock me over and over, saying, “Where is this God of yours? Why doesn’t he help you?”
4 So I speak over my heartbroken soul, “Take courage. Remember when you used to be
right out front leading the procession of praise when the great crowd of worshipers gathered to go into the presence of the Lord? You shouted with joy as the sound of passionate celebration filled the air and the joyous multitude of lovers honored the feast of the Lord!”
5 So then, my soul, why would you be depressed? Why would you sink into despair?
Just keep hoping and waiting on God, your Savior. For no matter what, I will still sing with praise, for you are my saving grace! TPT
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Ps 42:1 A white-tailed deer drinks from the creek; I want to drink God, deep draughts of God.
2 I’m thirsty for God-alive. I wonder, “Will I ever make it — arrive and drink in God’s presence?”
3 I’m on a diet of tears — tears for breakfast, tears for supper. All day long people knock at my door, Pestering, “Where is this God of yours?”
4 These are the things I go over and over, emptying out the pockets of my life. I was always at the head of the worshiping crowd, right out in front, Leading them all, eager to arrive and worship, Shouting praises, singing thanksgiving — celebrating, all of us, God’s feast!
5 Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God — soon I’ll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He’s my God. MSG
Ps 63:1 God — you’re my God! I can’t get enough of you! I’ve worked up such hunger and thirst for God, traveling across dry and weary deserts.
2 So here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in your strength and glory.
3 In your generous love I am really living at last! My lips brim praises like fountains.
4 I bless you every time I take a breath; My arms wave like banners of praise to you.
5 I eat my fill of prime rib and gravy; I smack my lips. It’s time to shout praises!
6 If I’m sleepless at midnight, I spend the hours in grateful reflection.
7 Because you’ve always stood up for me, I’m free to run and play.
8 I hold on to you for dear life, and you hold me steady as a post. MSG
Phil 3:7 The sum total of my religious pedigree and sincere devotion amounts to zero! What we have been gifted with in Christ has reduced what once seemed so important, to meaningless information. To esteem the law is to your loss! Faith is your profit.
8 In fact, I have come to the conclusion that every association I have had with that which defined me before as a devout Jew, is by far eclipsed by what I have gained in knowing the Messiah. Jesus Christ and his masterful redemption define me now. Religion is like dog pooh; and it stinks, avoid stepping in it!
9 So here I am; found in Christ! I was looking in the wrong place all along! My own duty-and-guilt-driven religious endeavor snared me in the cul-de-sac maize of self-righteousness, sponsored by the law of works! The faith of Christ reveals my identity; righteousness defines who God believes that I really am. This righteousness is sourced in God and endorses the authority of faith.
10 Oh to comprehend the dynamic of his resurrection! His resurrection is evidence of our righteousness! In the revelation of God’s economy of inclusion, I actually co-suffered with him and co-died together with Christ!
11 When confronted with death, I actually come face to face with my own resurrection!
12 To know even as I have always been known! Mirror
Isaiah 26:9 At night I yearn for you with all my heart; in the morning my spirit reaches out to you. When you display your judgments on the earth, people learn the ways of righteousness. TPT
John 7:37 This made them even more determined to seize him yet no one was able to touch him since his hour had not yet come.
31 Many in the crowds believed on him and reasoned that no Christ still to come could possibly begin to match the miracles which he already performed.
32 The Pharisees were extremely worried when they realized his popularity amongst the people, so with the support of their chief priests they ordered the temple police to arrest him.
33 Jesus then said to them, “I will only briefly remain with you where you can see me, then I will be on my way again, sinking out of sight, to be face to face with my Sender.
34 You will search for me but not find me and where I am your religion cannot take you.”
35 The Jews couldn’t imagine where he would go where they wouldn’t find him. Maybe he would join the dispersed Jews and go teach the Gentiles.
36 What would he mean by saying that we would seek him and not find him and “where I am you are powerless?”
37 On the final day, the crescendo of the eight-day Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus, knowing that he is the completeness of every prophetic picture and promise, cried out with a loud voice, If anyone is thirsty, let him come and stand 1face-to-face with me and drink! Mirror
Ps 107:9 How he satisfies the souls of thirsty ones and fills the hungry with goodness! TPT
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Ps 107:9 For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good. AMP
Luke 2:2 This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
3 Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for.
4 So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s town, for the census. As a descendant of David, he had to go there. MSG
Rev 7:16-17 Here there is no memory of hunger or thirst nor a scorching sun to plague them!
17 For the little Lamb who occupies the center stage of the throne will shepherd them and lead them beside living springs of water and God shall 1blot out every hurtful memory of the tears they have cried! Mirror
Rev 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride beckons, “Come!” And let everyone in whom this bold bidding resonates, extend the same urgent invitation, “Oh yes, come!” This is for the thirsty to come and quench their deepest longings by freely drinking from the water of life!
REV 22:20 The One, responding to the bidding of the Bride on a disillusioned mankind’s behalf, says yes! I am the evidence of your return! Without any delay! “Oh, you’re so welcome Lord Jesus!”, says the Bride! I can’t wait to embrace you home, my Lord and my God!
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus is with everyone! Mirror